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There were few couples more chic in all Paris. He was the Baron Robert Augier de Moussac, 48, haughty of glance, with an apartment, where else, on elegant Avenue Foch. She was the American-born Baroness Stephania von Kories zu Goetzen, still stunning at 47, possessed of digs on the Left Bank fully as grand as his. They were seen everywhere, usually together, at Gstaad or Cap d'Antibes in season, and at other times in the toniest watering holes of the capital. Only recently the Paris magazine Officiel de la Couture et de la Mode had ranked them among...
...meeting was arranged in the vault of the Swiss Bank Corp. in Geneva. The insurance company's representatives at the encounter were actually undercover Swiss and French police. Who should arrive bearing stolen ring and pendant but the Baroness Stephania von Kories zu Goetzen. She was accompanied by two young men. Under questioning, the trio fingered the baron as the instigator of their "transaction...
...last month, with the phony intelligence report secreted in a pack of cigarettes, Gardy headed for the Soviet sector of Berlin. When U.S. agents grabbed her, she fought, bit and gouged. Under questioning, she confessed that, under the code name of Stephania, she had been spying for the Russians from the day she stepped into Air Force intelligence headquarters 18 months before...
Even the Literary Guild, customarily little interested in unknown novelists, chose three first novels in 1953, and two were good. Stephania, a story of difficult and subtle relationships among patients in a Swedish hospital, was the surprising work of Ilona Karmel, a Polish graduate of Nazi concentration camps who wrote an adopted English that was both expert and moving. The other was Helen Fowler's The Intruder, an Australian novel about a mind-sick veteran and the family of his dead buddy. Another notable first was Mr. Nicholas, a whiplash dissection of a tyrannical London father by young...
Writing English as if she had been born to the language, Ilona Karmel has composed a novel of admirable restraint. She has sketched in the horrors of Stephania's past only lightly, and has avoided the trap of feeling sorry for her heroine. In its quiet, even-paced way, Stephania is a novel of complete integrity-and a testimonial to one of the human rights that finally bind all men together, the right to suffer...